| There are thousands of dream interpreters in this | | | | year. These are mainly short funerary or |
| world, but none of them can prove that you can | | | | dedicatory inscriptions, found on funerary urns, in |
| absolutely trust their method of dream translation | | | | tombs or on objects dedicated in sanctuaries. |
| even before they start translating the messages. | | | | Others are found on engraved bronze Etruscan |
| Dream interpretation is somewhat like astrology. | | | | mirrors, where they label mythological figures or |
| Some people believe that there is a meaning in | | | | give the name of the owner, and on coins, dice, |
| these sciences, while others don't even consider | | | | and pottery. Finally, there are graffiti scratched on |
| them as sciences that should be respected and | | | | pottery; though their function is little understood, |
| seriously examined by everyone. This happens | | | | they seem to include owners' names as well as |
| mainly because the several dream interpretation | | | | numbers, abbreviations, and non alphabetic signs". |
| methods that exist don't really translate the | | | | As you can see, Etruscan language has been |
| dream's meaning exactly as it is and because the | | | | ignored until today. The Etruscans were happy |
| materialist mentality of our civilization despises | | | | people and they could make predictions by |
| what it cannot understand or explain. | | | | interpreting the weather. I was immensely curious |
| The translation from one language to the other is | | | | to learn how I could translate their language when |
| very difficult. Depending on the document you | | | | I learned about their existence. |
| have to translate, things can be very difficult! Now | | | | I started caring for the correct scientific method |
| imagine how much more difficult it is to translate | | | | of dream interpretation and concluded that only |
| images into words. In your dreams, you see | | | | Carl Jung's method could be used in any kind of |
| images and sometimes you talk or hear voices. | | | | dream while other methods could be applied only |
| Your dreams are like a movie and you have to | | | | in a limited number of cases. At this point, I |
| translate the message contained in this movie into | | | | dreamt that someone told me that I would |
| words, so that your conscience may understand | | | | discover the mysterious language of the |
| what the dream is revealing you. This is very | | | | Etruscans and would be able to translate their |
| difficult indeed! | | | | documents. |
| I had to conduct very serious research before I | | | | The symbolic meaning of this dream revealed |
| could find the unique method of dream | | | | that I would discover how Etruscans made |
| interpretation that was absolutely correct and | | | | predictions by observing the weather changes, |
| understand exactly how the psychology of | | | | just as I would be able to predict the future by |
| dreams works. Then I had to delay present my | | | | interpreting my own dreams and those of others. |
| work to the public by 19 years because I | | | | This was because I continued Carl Jung's research |
| discovered that there is too much craziness in the | | | | through dream interpretation into the unknown |
| human psyche and I had to simplify a very | | | | region of the psychic sphere and discovered what |
| complicated method of dream interpretation so | | | | really causes craziness to the human being: the |
| that it could be understood and followed by | | | | anti-conscience, which is violent, primitive and evil |
| everyone. | | | | and is responsible for the a priori existence of |
| In the beginning of my studies (1988) I even | | | | craziness in the human mind. |
| remember visiting the National Library of Athens, | | | | I could interpret dreams better than Jung himself |
| Panepistimiou Street (we didn't have the Internet | | | | because I have been a writer since I was 7 and |
| at that time), looking for information about the | | | | by interpreting my own poetry, I could |
| Etrurians or Etruscans who disappeared with the | | | | understand the meaning of the dream symbols |
| Roman Empire. Something told me that their | | | | much better. In particular, the literary book I |
| language would reveal something very important | | | | started to write after a terrible car accident was |
| to the world, something that could be related to | | | | full of archetypes: universal dream symbols that |
| the interpretation of dreams. Here is some | | | | appear in dreams, religious manifestations and art |
| information about their story: | | | | works of all the civilizations of the world. |
| "In 396 BC, with the fall of Veii, the Romans | | | | Interpreting the symbolism of the strange |
| resolved to conquer a section of Etruria but the | | | | romance I wrote after the accident I suffered |
| Italian situation did not give them peace. | | | | when I was 15, I could understand exactly how to |
| The Etruscans forces fought to regain the | | | | translate the dream symbols into words. |
| territory of Veii, but the Roman federation has no | | | | Of course, if you are a poet, you have to be able |
| political cohesion and therefore, it was not | | | | to interpret poetry and in the old days, the |
| involved. | | | | scientific method of dream interpretation was like |
| The Celts invaded and conquered all Cisalpine Gaul | | | | interpreting poetry. Since I knew very well how |
| right up to Gallic Sena (or Senigallia in the | | | | to interpret the literary meaning of poetry, it was |
| Marches). | | | | not difficult for me to understand how to apply |
| Until then, Rome had never come in contact with | | | | this knowledge to the scientific method of dream |
| the Celts and was not acquainted with their | | | | interpretation discovered by Jung, which was the |
| formidable impact; however, Rome was not | | | | only correct method. I have verified this in my |
| concerned because it is separated from the Celts | | | | own life after precisely following the guidance of |
| by Etruria. | | | | the unconscious through my dreams, which has |
| Etruria was not politically hostile towards the Celts, | | | | helped me completely understand the psychology |
| but they were conciliatory and diplomatic. Etruria | | | | of dreams. |
| knows that it could not directly compete with the | | | | Besides this, a literary writer is usually also a |
| Celtic tribes who had taken the dodecapoli of | | | | philosopher and a psychologist who is constantly |
| Cisalpine Gaul". | | | | trying to understand human nature. |
| Here is some information about their language: | | | | I felt that I could trust the unconscious because I |
| "Unlike Greek and Latin, Etruscan, which is the | | | | understood that the magic inspiration of my |
| third great ancient cultural language in Italy, does | | | | literary works came directly from there. It was a |
| not survive in any great literary works. An | | | | gift that I received-a great talent in literature that |
| Etruscan religious literature did exist, and evidence | | | | would help me not only to understand the beauty |
| suggests that there was a body of historical | | | | of art and keep my sensitivity alive forever but |
| literature and drama as well. For example, the | | | | also help me understand how to exactly interpret |
| name of a playwright, Volnius, of obscure date is | | | | dream symbols. Thus, I could discover the |
| known, who wrote "Tuscan tragedies." Although | | | | anti-conscience that constantly tries to cause |
| there is no evidence of notation, it is possible that | | | | craziness to the conscience and I discovered how |
| Etruscan music was in written form. | | | | everyone could prevent and cure any kind of |
| The Etruscan language is universally accepted as | | | | mental illness. |
| an isolated case. It cannot be shown conclusively | | | | This is the importance of my work: the discovery |
| to be related to any other language, living or | | | | of the anti-conscience and the necessity of |
| dead, except for a couple of sparsely attested | | | | indispensable psychotherapy in the human being |
| extinct languages. | | | | so that one may eliminate the anti-conscience by |
| Based on the few inscriptions that were | | | | transforming it into a positive part of the |
| discovered, Raetic, which is recorded in the Alps, | | | | conscience. |
| was clearly related to Etruscan. | | | | The psychology of dreams is based on craziness |
| Lemnian, recorded on the island of Lemnos, also | | | | prevention and cure. Everything you see in your |
| appears to have been related to Etruscan. A third | | | | dreams is always trying to protect you from |
| language, Camunic, sparsely recorded in NW Italy | | | | your anti-conscience that can only destroy your |
| and written in the Etruscan alphabet, may possibly | | | | life through craziness and despair. |
| also have been related, but the evidence is too | | | | Your dreams are very important lessons from |
| sparse to allow any firm conclusions. | | | | the wise and saintly unconscious mind, which has |
| At the time of imperial Rome, Etruscan ceased to | | | | evolved much more than our conscience because |
| be spoken although it continued to be studied by | | | | it is much older. Its age cannot even be calculated. |
| priests and scholars. The emperor Claudius (death, | | | | It is a perfect mind, without ego and evil, but |
| 54 CE) wrote a history of the Etruscans in 20 | | | | which has saintly characteristics and constantly |
| books, now lost, which was based on sources | | | | tries to save the human being from terror, which |
| that were still preserved in his day. The language | | | | is the result of the craziness caused by the |
| continued to be used in a religious context until | | | | domination of the anti-conscience. |
| late antiquity; the final record of such use relates | | | | The anti-conscience is a wild and sneaky creature |
| to the invasion of Rome by Alaric, chief of the | | | | like a shark. It has to be tamed by the conscience |
| Visigoths, in 410 CE, when Etruscan priests were | | | | and transformed into a part that will bring balance |
| summoned to conjure lightning against the | | | | to the psyche. This part contains many qualities |
| barbarians. | | | | that can be very helpful for the human being |
| There is a corpus of over 10,000 known Etruscan | | | | when tamed and developed like the conscience. |
| inscriptions, with new ones being discovered each | | | | |